MP tables motion for zero-rate VAT on audiobooks
Sir Mike Penning MP submits an Early Day Motion and asks our members to write to their own MPs about the tax on audiobooks
Sir Mike Penning MP submits an Early Day Motion and asks our members to write to their own MPs about the tax on audiobooks
We call on the next Government to support Britain’s cultural heart: with funding and legislation, with transparency and ambition.
The UK Government has the opportunity to overturn an illogical and manifestly unfair tax system that discriminates against digital readers.
It has been a longstanding principle that VAT is zero-rated on sales of printed books, in order to prevent a tax on reading and a tax on knowledge.
The EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) has agreed to allow all member states to give e-books and audiobooks the same VAT-free status as printed books.